Essential Reading for

Every 6th Grader

1. And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold
2. The Contender by Robert Lypsyte
3. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
4. A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
5. Dragonwings by Laurence Yep
6. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm by Nancy Farmer
7. Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Houston and James Houston
8. Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
9. Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story by Ben Carson
10. The Giver by Lois Lowry
11. Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
12. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
13. How the Garcia Girlss Lost Their Accent by Julia Alvarez
14. I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton De Trevino
15. The Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter
16. Nothing but the Truth by Avi
17. Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
18. The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
19. Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell
20. The Skin I'm In by Sharom Flake
21. Swallowing Stones by Joyce McDonald
22. Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen
23. Tuch Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
24. A Wrinke in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
25. Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo by Zlata Filipovic